December 22, 2011

The SEC announced today that they won't be finished with the 2012 football schedule until after Christmas. With that in mind, here's the UGA football schedule as I'm projecting based on the rumors and rumblings:

There's a chance we could see Bama at home in Week 8 before the Cocktail Party with the bye week after Florida, but that's not what I heard earlier this week. This is all still fluid to some degree so you could see even more changes. However, this is the latest as of yesterday's rumor mill.

The games that are either confirmed or darn close to being confirmed are Buffalo, Missouri, FAU, Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech. Given that Ole Miss appears to be playing Florida and Missouri from the SEC East next year, it looks very likely that Georgia does get Bama...at home.

UPDATE: Various other media outlets are saying that UGA will play Ole Miss at home in Week 10 instead of Alabama. That would be great, but I'm struggling with the conflicting Ole Miss rumors which have them playing:

Missouri and Vandyor Florida and Vandyor Missouri and Floridaor UGA and Vandy

I had projected earlier this offseason that we'd get Ole Miss and Aubrn as our Western Teams. I would prefer to have been right then....than the post above.

Anon @ 1:05 - Good question. I'm less sure about the Ole Miss issue. Last I heard, they were getting UF and Mizz. But you're right. That doesn't make sense. Because the other rivalry games need to stand up.

Exactly what did you folks expect? This non conference stuff is exactly what McGarity promised to give us when he canceled the Oregon series. Wait till after the Clemson series ends. We will have more of this OOC garbage because it is the Gator way. This is worse than the NFL fan having to pay for meaningless exhibition games.

Nah, we won't drop Tech. We will reduce the garbage teams that we pay full price for to 2. We probably will back out of Ohio State like we did Oregon, but at least we would still be playing 10 BCS level opponents vs Coastal Carolina.

I think a backloaded schedule might favor UGA. We always seem to have trouble early and then get going late many years. Win some games, get confident, get ranked high, workout the kinks, etc. It's not a bad change perhaps.

Well, If you don't like the schedule, you don't have to buy the tickets. I am sure someone else would be happy to pick up your seats.I love a few more games that are kid friendly. They are the future fans you know.

It's kind of funny hearing some Dawg fans talk about a "soft schedule" when we barely beat UT, UK, Vandy, and UF, all of which were not very good teams. Unfortunately, the Dawgs have not yet proven if we've turned the corner because they've failed in the only three tests this season.